One of the worst mistakes Marks & Spencer ever did was to abandon all those knitwear and hosiery manufacturers that relied on it for survival. Instead they put profit first and quality second and I'm sure many would have been happy to pay a bit more to buy British. Here I was delivering to Paula Works in Kirby, I think part of the Northgate Group and I didn't have to walk very far to get a shot of it's staff buses including this former Blackpool Leyland PD2 PFR 335 with an unusual 'Midland Red style full-cab'
You were right about M&S quality:even their footwear became crap,like the shoes that lost their colour in the rain.
ReplyDeleteRe the PD2:didn'the Blackpool fit some of these with mix of vents (such as sliders with half-drops),on similar lines to what Manchester vegan doing in the early '60s?